The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities by Arora Namit

Author:Arora, Namit [Arora, Namit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Essays Collective
Published: 2017-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

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1 ​ All Gita quotes in this essay come from The Bhagavad Gita: Translated with a General Introduction by Eknath Easwaran . Penguin Books India, 1996. An earlier version of this essay appeared in two installments on 3 Quarks Daily on Dec 5, 2011 and Jan 2, 2012.

2 ​ Wendy Doniger. 2009. The Hindus: An Alternative History . Penguin, p. 263.

3 ​ Sheldon Pollock. 2006. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India . University of California Press, p. 225.

4 ​ Mahatma Gandhi. 2012. Bhagavad Gita: According to Gandhi . Orient Publishing.

5 ​ The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda , Volume 4; Lectures and Discourses: Thoughts on the Gita .

6 ​ S. Radhakrishnan. 1911. ‘The Ethics of the Bhagavadgita and Kant’. International Journal of Ethics , Vol. 21, No. 4 (July), pp. 465-475.

7 ​ Historian RS Sharma writes in Rethinking India’s Past (p. 87): ‘Even European writers gave their attention mainly to the study of the upper classes of Hindu society … It is difficult to explain these writers’ lack of interest in the fortunes of the lower orders unless we suppose that their vision was circumscribed by the dominant class outlook of their age.’

8 ​ Wendy Doniger. 2013. On Hinduism . Aleph Book Company. Kindle Edition, Locations 590-597.

9 ​ Christophe Jaffrelot. 2013. Hindu Nationalism: A Reader . Permanent Black. Kindle Edition, p. 7.

10 ​ Susan Bayly. 1999. Caste, Society and Politics in India: from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age . Cambridge University Press, p. 148.

11 ​ DD Kosambi. 1962. Myth and Reality . Popular Prakashan, p. 17.

12 ​ BR Ambedkar. 2002. ‘Krishna and his Gita’. From The Essential Writings of BR Ambedkar . Edited by Valerian Rodrigues. Oxford India Paperbacks, pp. 193-204.

13 ​ VR Narla. 2010. The Truth about the Gita . Prometheus Books.

14 ​ Meghnad Desai. 2015. Who Wrote the Bhagvadgita . Element.

15 ​ Isha Upanishad , Translated and with a commentary by Sri Aurobindo between 1900-14. Vol. 17, The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo . Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, p. 7.

16 ​ P. Lal. 1986. The Mahabharata Of Vyasa (English and Sanskrit Edition) . Vikas Publishing House.

17 ​ Amartya Sen. 2011. The Idea of Justice . Harvard University Press, pp. 209-211.

18 ​ DD Kosambi. 1962. Myth and Reality . Popular Prakashan, p. 18.

19 ​ P. Lal. 1965. The Bhagavadgita . Orient Paperbacks.

20 ​ Amartya Sen. 2011. The Idea of Justice . Harvard University Press, pp. 209-211.

21 ​ ‘Declare Bhagavad Gita as national book, demands BJP’, Hindustan Times , Dec 20, 2011.

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